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McClintockC t1_jc2ilmn wrote

For anyone interested in the full poem:

Delusion is a divine curse that makes someone envious, conceited, malicious, so that he doesn’t know the evil he does will strike him back.

If he could see his nothingness and his deadly, festering wound, pain would arise from looking within, and that pain would save him.

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Sanity_LARP t1_jc2cchs wrote

I don't get it

It only has two parts so why not include the first half:

"Delusion is a divine curse that makes someone envious, conceited, malicious, so that he doesn’t know the evil he does will strike him back.

If he could see his nothingness and his deadly, festering wound, pain would arise from looking within, and that pain would save him."

It's interesting but I wouldn't call it particularly motivational. Motivation is kind of the art of delusion.

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bentschji OP t1_jc6bt84 wrote

Where in your body do you feel that "not getting it"?

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austinmulkamusic t1_jc6j4ee wrote

It's stating that the irony of our flaws is that we can't see them while others can. We are all delusional to our own flaws, yet see others as though they were wounds on their faces. The irony is, if we were able to see ourselves from an outside perspective (or look within us as the poem suggests) the pain of our realization would save us.

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Never_Dying t1_jc1uh4x wrote

I see that pain. But I can't treat that.

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Past-Pressure-3913 t1_jc2h9sj wrote

This resonates but I don't know why

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bentschji OP t1_jc6bsca wrote

Uhh, that's an interesting thread to dive into - have fun :)

[let me know if you're interested in ways to explore this further, got a couple of ideas]

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